January 07, 2014, 10:47AM

This year's Everybody Reads will culminate with a visit from the nation's first Latino Supreme Court Justice. Sotomayor will speak at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on March 11 at 7:30 p.m. Full story »

February 25, 2013, 1:54PM

The Supreme Court justice blasts Assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Ponder for asking a defendant him in open court, "You've got African Americans, you've got Hispanics, you've got a bag full of money. Does that tell you, a light bulb doesn't go off in your head and say, 'This is a drug deal?'" Full story »

April 27, 2012, 7:00AM

Dana Milbank writes: While other justices at least attempted a veneer of fair and impartial questioning in the highly charged case, Scalia left no doubt from the start that he is a champion of the Arizona crackdown and that he would verbally lacerate anybody who felt otherwise. Full story »

August 08, 2009, 4:03PM

WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's newest justice today, pledging during a brief ceremony at the high court to defend the Constitution and administer impartial justice. Sotomayor, 55, is the first Hispanic justice and only the third woman in the court's 220-year history. Full story »

August 06, 2009, 5:52PM

The 68-31 roll call Thursday by which the Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be a Supreme Court associate justice. A "yes" vote is a vote to confirm the nomination. Voting yes were 57 Democrats, 9 Republicans and 2 independents. Oregon's two senators -- Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley -- voted in favor of Sotomayor's confirmation. Voting... Full story »

August 06, 2009, 5:29PM

NEW YORK -- Sonia Sotomayor bathed in applause from friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday as the Senate voted to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court. The 55-year-old New Yorker watched the vote unfold on large-screen televisions in a conference room on the 8th floor overflowing with other judges and courthouse personnel. Sotomayor... Full story »

July 13, 2009, 6:21PM

July 04, 2009, 8:19AM

At this point in the recession, you've probably become familiar with the term "zombie bank," a financial institution that can continue operating, thanks to government support, even though its debts outweigh its assets. Now it's time to add a related descriptor to our public discourse: "zombie politician." The term describes a political figure whose electoral worth is less than... Full story »

June 13, 2009, 5:04PM

The conversation usually goes like this: A worried mother calls, asking for a list of college scholarships to which her budding collegian can apply. Surely pools of money are available to Latino students with good grades. The request is usually a plea from a mother overwhelmed by the prospect of paying tuition and fees. Then she moves to the... Full story »

June 13, 2009, 9:34AM

The people's passions beg for judicial correction What galls me most about the California Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold Proposition 8, thereby banning same-sex marriage in California, is that the legal reasoning behind the decision was sound. The law as it is written does allow the type of change to the California state constitution enacted by Proposition 8.... Full story »

May 30, 2009, 6:00PM

Ugly tactics will do nothing to change the result Plenty of political analysts are saying that Republican opposition to the nomination of appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court would be political suicide. They're right. With approval numbers lower than lima beans, the party doesn't have enough political capital to come out against the historic nomination of... Full story »